Is it time for a nap yet?

It looks like someone may have bought this house and it has some cool features. 1878 house in Guildhall, VT has 4bds, 2ba, 2,274sqft, $280k (Zillow's est.: $294,700)

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

somehow being progressive and secular automatically means putting women's bodies on display (although of course these people would shame women showing that much skin because they chose to). gee, I wonder why...

FD: We can see the cat. Do you have an ETA on animal control?

Dispatch: Twenty minutes.

FD: Alright, we think we can get the cat.

Dispatch: Copy, we'll let animal control know.

FD several minutes later: We've got the cat.

Dispatch: Copy, do you still want--

FD, interrupting: Update, the cat DOES NOT like us.

Dispatch: ...so you do still want animal control, then?"

FD: Yes. Tell them the cat is in the engine.

Dispatch: ...are you also in the engine?

To offer some perspective, I did a little research and uncovered that rent on a commercial space in this neighborhood is generally $23-$30 per square foot per year, meaning that the monthly rent on a space that size is somewhere in the range of $20K-$25K per month. Given that the process has been going on for at least three months, this restaurant which opened less than a year ago has nonpaid or underpaid the rent for likely over half its existence. It has also apparently been paying its staff using checks without pay stubs when it has paid them at all, meaning there's no breakdown of wages/taxes/tips available for staff to confirm the amount is correct.

Sadly that last part is the least surprising -- knowing people in food service and entertainment in Chicago has informed me that here (I don't know if this is a Chicago thing or a broader national issue) there's an endemic issue with wage theft, general corruption, and financial crime specifically amongst bar and night-spot restaurant ownership.